Houston Astros Minor League Recap: July 30th
Another night of Astros minor league play is in the books. See how the prospects performed last night.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (58-48) won 10-4 (BOX SCORE)
Big 9th inning for the Grizzlies. Fresno jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the 2nd inning on a Moon RBI single. Jankowksi started for Fresno and went 3.2 innings allowing 3 runs. He was relieved by McCurry who tossed 2.1 scoreless innings. The Grizzlies got another run in the 8th on a Teoscar RBI single to make it 3-2. Fresno entered the 9th down 4-2 and that is when the rally started. They ended up scoring 8 runs in the 9th with a Kemp RBI single, Reed 2 run single, Teoscar 2 run triple, Singleton RBI single, and a Moran 2 run double. Fields tossed a scoreless 9th to close it.
- Tony Kemp, 2B: 2-for-5, R, RBI, BB
- A.J. Reed, 1B: 2-for-5, R, 2 RBI
- Teoscar Hernandez, RF: 3-for-5, 2 R, 2B, 3B, 3 RBI
- Jon Kemmer, LF: 1-for-4, 2 R, 2 BB
- Jon Singleton, DH: 1-for-5, R, RBI
- Tyler Heineman, C: 1-for-4, R
- Colin Moran, 3B: 1-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI, BB
- Chan Moon, SS: 3-for-5, R, RBI
- Andrew Aplin, CF: 1-for-5, R
- Jordan Jankowski, RHP: 3.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
- Brendan McCurry, RHP: 2.1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
- Jandel Gustave, RHP: 2.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K (WIN)
- Josh Fields, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (63-43) lost 8-5 (BOX SCORE)
Emanuel got the start for the Hooks and the first few innings went well. He ran into some trouble giving up 1 in the 3rd and then another 3 in the 5th. He went back out for the 6th and gave up 2 more. Corpus got 2 runs in the 3rd inning on an RBI triple from Vasquez and RBI groundout from Gregor. In the 6th inning Gregor connected on a 3 run HR to bring Corpus within a run. Unfortunately the bullpen gave up 2 more and the Hooks were unable to bounce back.
- J.D. Davis, 3B: 1-for-4, 2B
- Nick Tanielu, 2B: 1-for-3, 2B, 2 R, 2B
- Danry Vasquez, LF: 2-for-4, 2 R, 3B, RBI
- Conrad Gregor, 1B: 2-for-4, R, HR, 4 RBI
- Kent Emanuel, LHP: 5.1 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 3 BB, 4 K
A+: Lancaster Jethawks (59-46) won 5-3 (BOX SCORE)
One big inning wins it. Bostick got the start and pitched pretty good allowing 1 unearned run over 4 innings of work. He struck out 8 but did walk 5. In the 4th Martin added a sac fly to get Lancaster on the board. In the 5th inning the Jethawks got an RBI single from Muniz and a 2 run double from Martin to take a 5-1 lead. McCanna relieved Bostick and was very good before giving up 2 runs in the 9th but Lancaster was able to hang on for the win.
- Johnny Sewald, RF: 1-for-2, R, BB, 2 SB
- Bryan Muniz, 1B: 3-for-4, 2 R, RBI, BB
- Trent Woodward, C: 2-for-4, R, 2B, BB
- Jason Martin, CF: 2-for-3, 2B, 3 RBI
- Keach Ballard, 3B: 1-for-3, R
- Akeem Bostick, RHP: 4.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 5 BB, 8 K
- Kevin McCanna, LHP: 4.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 6 K (WIN)
- Kevin Comer, RHP: 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K (SAVE)
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (50-54) won 2-1 (BOX SCORE)
Solid pitching led to the win in this one. Valdez made his first start with Quad Cities and tossed 5 innings of 1 run baseball striking out 6. Murphy relieved him and pitched even better going 4 innings with no runs allowed and 5 strikeouts. Quad Cities got on the board in the 2nd inning with an RBI single from Correa. They would add another run on a Porter solo HR in the 7th. The offense only put up 2 runs but it was just enough to squeak out the win.
- Stephen Wrenn, LF: 2-for-4, SB
- Pat Porter, RF: 1-for-4, R, HR, RBI
- Anthony Hermelyn, DH: 2-for-4, R
- Christian Correa, C: 1-for-4, RBI
- Framber Valdez, RHP: 5.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K
- Chris Murphy, RHP: 4.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (WIN)
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (22-19) lost 8-2 (BOX SCORE)
Sandoval started for the ValleyCats and gave up 4 runs over his 3.1 innings of work. He did finish with 6 strikeouts though. Tri-City scored 2 runs in the 6th to make it a 4-2 game. Unfortunately Connecticut responded with 3 runs of their own to extend the their lead to 7-2. A rough night for the offense as they managed just 5 hits.
- Ryne Birk, 2B: 0-for-2, 2 BB
- Taylor Jones, 1B: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Ronnie Dawson, LF: 0-for-2, R, 2 BB
- Brauly Mejia, CF: 2-for-4, 2B, RBI
- Edgardo Sandoval, RHP: 3.1 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 6 K
ROOKIE: Greeneville Astros (20-17) won 8-5 (BOX SCORE)
- Miguelangel Sierra, SS: 0-for-4, R, BB
- Abraham Toro-Hernandez, 3B: 1-for-4, R
- Troy Sieber, 1B: 1-for-3, R, BB
- Carlos Machado, LF: 1-for-3, 2 R, RBI, BB
- Bryan De La Cruz, RF: 2-for-2, 2 R, HR, 4 RBI, 2 BB
- Jonathan Arauz, 2B: 1-for-4, R, 2 RBI
- Ruben Castro, C: 2-for-4, 2B, RBI
- Carlos Hiraldo, RHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
- Devin Raftery, RHP: 4.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 K (WIN)
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Cesar Valdez (3.20 ERA)
CC: Cy Sneed (5.18 ERA)
LAN: Jose Hernandez (4.26 ERA)
QC: Hector Perez (6.75 ERA)
TC: TBD
GV: Diogenes Almengo (3.42 ERA)
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**Photo Credit: Kiel Maddox/Fresno Grizzlies**
